If you do the numbers it is clear that the People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) leadership has chosen bloodshed over ballots.
The PAD has abandoned electoral politics. With no coherent or credible political platform their only hope is that sufficient blood will be spilt to prompt a military or royal strike against Thailand’s democratically elected government. [...]
Blood rather than ballots
October 14th, 2008 by Andrew Walker and Nicholas Farrelly · 27 Comments
Tags: Royal family · Thailand
7 political prisoners, 8995 nobodies
October 14th, 2008 by Square Table, Guest Contributor · Add a Comment
When on September 23 the Government of Myanmar announced that it was releasing 9002 people from its jails there was the usual response in the foreign media and from international agencies: how many were political prisoners? It turns out that about seven of them fell into this privileged category, among them the longest-serving of all, [...]
Tags: Burma · Square Table